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The Tedei, otherwise known as the Thirrily, are an
Aboriginal Australian Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the T ...
people of
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. They are a branch of the Yingkarta.


Country

Tedei land consisted of some extending from the east coast of Shark Bay through to the Wooramel River valley's headwaters as far as Pimbie, Carey Downs and the vicinity of Towrana. It included the coastal area north of Yaringa. inland to the headwaters, north only to Pimbie. Their limits were defined as a day's walk from either bank of the Wooramel.


People

The Tedei were once classified as an autonomous tribe. The work of linguist Peter Austin points to the conclusion that they, the Tedei/Thirrily, were actually a dialect division of the Yingkarta, together with the Mandi tribe.


Social organisation

The Tedei did not practice circumcision.


Alternative names

* Tjoki * Choekie * Chockie


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* * * * * {{authority control Aboriginal peoples of Western Australia Gascoyne